F9N at Linuxhotel
Last weekend, from May 22nd to May 24th the freesmartphone.org and SHR communities had their first meeting, the FSOSHRUDCON. The place to hold that meeting was the Linuxhotel near Essen (more about that later).
The meeting itself was awesome! It was great to meet old friends again and finally get to know all the people that I just knew from IRC. We had some interesting talks, the crazy french guys even managed to set up a streaming server (with support from Bearstech) and I've freed about 11 phones of buzzing. And if that wasn't enough we had many inspiring talks and discussions and SHR is finally in the OE git repo.
I think everybody left the conference with renewed motivation.
I want to devote some words to the Linuxhotel as they have been a tremendous help in getting this whole event realized. The Linuxhotel is a place where seminars about open source such as Linux schooling, LPI certification, programming languages and many more take place. With this they are making money in order to finance their business.
The really cool thing however is the way they are giving back to the open source community. If you are an open source organization the Linuxhotel will offer you all their infrastructure at minimal cost. Breakfast was included, Coffee, tea and soft drinks for the whole day as well. A closet with lots of useful hardware was free for everyone to use (which basically saved live streaming since we were in need of a firewire cable. :-) You really had the impression that they are living the open source idea. I'm definitely going back there!